Posts from the ‘News’ Category

  • NAS

    Alex supports autism campaign

    May 22nd, 2013 | News | Stockton North Labour Team | Comments Off

    Alex Cunningham, MP for Stockton North, is backing The National Autistic Society’s (NAS) new campaign aimed at improving support for adults with autism across the Stockton Borough and throughout England. One in every hundred adults has autism, meaning there are 300,000 adults in England with the disability. Alex’s endorsement of the ‘Push For Action’ campaign [...]

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  • Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)

    Alex joins RNIB’s “Spot the Signs” campaign to fight against avoidable sight loss

    May 14th, 2013 | News | Stockton North Labour Team | Comments Off

    Stockton North MP, Alex Cunningham, is joining the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) to urge constituents to learn how to spot the signs of wet age related macular degeneration (AMD) – the biggest cause of sight loss in the UK – so they can act quickly. Alex is supporting RNIB’s “Spot the Signs” [...]

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  • Heart from red glass beads

    Alex challenges Government MPs to back fair public health funding

    May 14th, 2013 | News | Stockton North Labour Team | Comments Off

    A challenge to Teesside’s two Government MPs to get behind their communities and fight for a fairer share of the funding available for public health was today thrown down by Stockton North Labour MP, Alex Cunningham. Research from the Royal College of Nursing in the North East of England shows that while Kensington and Chelsea [...]

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  • smoking

    Queen’s Speech: Government fails to take action on health

    May 8th, 2013 | News | Stockton North Labour Team | Comments Off

    The failure of the Government to announce legislation to introduce standard packs for cigarettes, a ban on smoking in cars with children present and a fixed unit price for alcohol shows they have given in again to the powerful tobacco and alcohol lobbies. Stockton North Labour MP, Alex Cunningham, said he was disappointed that despite [...]

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  • Money coins in bag

    Alex Cunningham MP calls on local schools to take part in ‘My Money Week’

    May 7th, 2013 | News, Youth News | Stockton North Labour Team | Comments Off

    Alex Cunningham, MP for Stockton North, has called on local schools to take part in My Money Week (3 to 9 June), giving pupils the chance to learn more about money and personal finance.  Every primary and secondary school in Stockton North is being given the chance to take part for free in My Money [...]

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